Of those that did not carry out routine checks, some said they did nothave access to child protection plans, whileothers said data protection laws did not allow staff to carry out checks.
But the building has been criticised by some prominent cultural figures like Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky and film-maker Alexander Sokurov, whileothershave dubbed it the Mariinsky Mall, not in keeping among the other 19th-Century buildings in the city.